the pentagon had nothing to do with this fight. why they have o take 50% of the cuts is just inexcusable! >> gretchen: because it was a draconian measure. it was originally to try and get people to come together to discuss the debt ceiling. >> brian: let dracula go bite somebody else. >> gretchen: that's why they did the cuts that they thought both sides would hate so much that they would never allow us to get to this point and here we are. >> steve: let's talk a little bit p -- right. exactly. and if the president were given the authority then, the transfer authority, and he did do the draconian cuts with the -- 2% cuts to the military, then people could say look, it was the president's choice and he chose to lay off. meanwhile, exactly ten minutes after the top of the hour. extreme weather in the midwest, shutting down businesses in kansas and missouri where the governors of both states have issued states of emergency. wdas kathy quinn is live in overland park, kansas, a suburb of kansas city with more. and it was bad, wasn't it,